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WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - The FBI Agents Association on Tuesday lambasted FBI Director Kash Patel, after the bureau fired, unfired and then re-fired several FBI agents who had worked on cases targeting U.S. President Donald Trump or his allies.
"Director Patel has disregarded the law and launched a campaign of erratic and arbitrary retribution," the association said in a statement.
More than 200 people have been fired from the Justice Department since Trump took office in January. Of those, dozens worked on criminal cases related to Trump or his allies.
Several former FBI officials, including former Acting Director Brian Driscoll, have since filed a lawsuit challenging their termination, and accusing the administration of orchestrating a politically motivated personnel purge.
The Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committee, meanwhile, has been releasing records from Smith's investigation that include the names of Justice Department or FBI personnel who were involved. Most of those people have since been terminated, and many of them have also been targeted online by pro-Trump social media accounts. --Reuters.
How many times has that happened? I never knew this org even existed, This is what the weaponizing of the DOJ looks like. They claimed Americans lost confidence in the FBI (they mean MAGA) only to conduct actions of retribution where now they lost the confidence of the FBI agents themselves. Keep your head down, bite your tongue, be miserable, and keep from getting fired. What usually happens when a leader looses the confidence of those they are suppose to lead?